My (slightly snarky) Wish List for Santa

Dear Santa, Christmas is getting close and I realized I haven’t sent you my list yet. So here it is and though I didn’t ask for world peace, I tried not to be selfish. Though I do feel that authors-not-behaving-badly would sort of count towards the world peace thing....

Are you a Street Vendor or an Author?

When you live in New York you see a lot of street vendors. Some of them are pretty stable people, you know they have their carts, they are where you expect them to be every day. They know your name, make a special effort to remember your order, etc. But then there are...

I Need to Join the Mafia

The day started out like any other…. I had dozens of emails to return, blogs to read, coffee to drink, tweets to ferret through – when suddenly it all came to a screeching halt. An author I had previously worked with (months prior) shot me an email that...